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title: ngl how many swans showed up at the moor? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl how many swans showed up at the moor? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 888 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99: the stork carries a baby to the Viking's wife, but the child turns into a frog at night» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99…

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ngl how many swans showed up at the moor?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, many swans · **What happens:** ngl, show up · **To what, where:** moor

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 888 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99: the stork carries a baby to the Viking's wife, but the child turns into a frog at night» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/888-pg27200-part99/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t2:1
# text = ngl how many swans showed up at the moor?
1	ngl	ngl	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ngl** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show up** | past | many swans |  |  | the moor |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at moor=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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seven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t2:o1:1
# text = seven
1	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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twelve swans and their young

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t2:o2:1
# text = twelve swans and their young
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	young	young	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
three swans, all white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t2:o3:1
# text = three swans, all white
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t2:o4:1
# text = three
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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